On Thu, 2020-03-12 at 11:14 +0000, Rowland penny via Dng wrote:
>
> Here we go again, reinventing the wheel ;-)
>
> Windows has something similar, they call it roaming profiles and that 
> has its problems.

It isn't exactly reinventing the wheel, it is more like porting the
wheel. The fact Windows has a similar feature is exactly the point, it
has always been the point. RedHat/IBM is working with Microsoft to
prepare the way for what anyone paying attention knows is coming.
Maintaining the Windows kernel and device drivers is inefficient and is
gaining them nothing at this point. So make Linux + userland feature
complete enough to simply port the Windows UI to it and merge it into
one new platform. If they could bolt Win32 onto NT they can bolt it
onto Linux + Systemd + Wayland + *kit + yet more RH cruft to make it all
work.

The sooner we realize that RedHat is leading nothing less than a hard
fork of Linux + GNU into Linux + Windows, exactly like Google created
Linux + Android btw, the less damage to the Linux + GNU/UNIX side of the
fork. It is long past the point where we need to move our tree away
from RedHat and everything it has infected. If that means adopting
large parts of modern BSD, so be it. Guess that depends on whether
there is anyone left at GNU who can make strategic decisions and just
how many "GNU" projects are effectively RedHat ones now. Stallman being
#meetoo purged was probably an intentional thing.

Once we finally complete the fork everyone will be happier, the world
will be a better place, etc. Window atop Linux will even be a better
product.